Country Tea Parties

Twelfth Night

FEBRUARY

Valentine Tea for Two

MARCH

Breakfast in Bed

APRIL

Easter Brunch

MAY

Mother's Day

JUNE

Bridal Shower

JULY

Tea & Roses

AUGUST

The Queen's Tea

SEPTEMBER

Hiker's Tea

OCTOBER

Children's Tea

NOVEMBER

Party for a Shut-In

DECEMBER

Holiday Open House

This month-by-month collection offers interesting and creative ideas for 12 special tea parties, from June's Bridal Shower to a September Hiker's Tea.

Besides Storey's Country Tea Party, Maggie Stuckey has written a number of gardening books, such as Aromatherapy for Everyone, The Complete Herb Book, and Green Plants for Gray Days. She likes to grow tea herbs, and tea parties are one of the most pleasurable ways for her to spend time with her friends and her young niece. Maggie lives in Portland, Oregon.

Carolyn Bucha is a self-taught, award-winning artist who specializes in illustrations for books and greeting cards, such as Country Tea Party, similar Storey title Tea With Friends by Elizabeth Knight, and H. George Caspari Cards. Her work has been on the cover of The Treasury of American Quilts and Bartlett's Ocean View Farm Cookbook, and her watercolors were featured in the cookbook, Please Come to Dinner. Carolyn's style was influenced by the years she spent in the Middle East and Paris. Originally from England, Carolyn now lives in Waccabuc, New York.